Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Just one word - Blog prompt day 19

Saturday's blog prompt was "A word". The challenge: to describe ourselves in one word. Time to make that noise plumbers make when they're about to give you an estimate :-) I was struggling to come up with anything other than "disorganised" for a while, but that's just at the moment. I go through phases of being very organised, so I didn't think that was fair. I asked my husband, who suggested "short" and "untidy". Both are sadly true, but I rejected them too. The first was just a physical trait, the second is only half the story. I *am* particularly talented at messing up a craft desk or a kitchen, as anyone who's been to one of my demos or my kitchen will tell you, but I *want* everything in its place (and a place for everything). One reason I make a mess is that I get too absorbed in the task at hand to tidy as I go. I also have difficulty starting a job if I know I can't finish it, and I do tend to get bogged down in reorganising my storage of things, rather than just focusing on clearing the decks. In the end I decided to be kind to myself and plumped for "optimistic". Much of my messiness and lateness is the result of me thinking I can achieve more than I can in the time, rather than being disorganised as such, and I do generally think of my glass as being half full, so I think it's a fair assessment. Of course, this just reminds me of the old bit of job interview advice for when you're asked for your greatest weakness: always say "I'm too much of a perfectionist", as it's not really a weakness after all:-)